Mini Bug Out Bags?

You guys may have have heard the George Carllin routine "A Place for My Stuff" - where as he travels he takes an increasingly smaller version of his
"stuff" with him until he is down to the stuff he "really" needs.

Throughout the years I've had the good fortune to hunt with a few former special forces guys. Each of these guys eventually trusted me enough to
tell me where they had a small BOB or two hidden in the woods "just in case..".

Typically we'd hunt for a week or so at a time so while they might have a BOB at home, they might also have one in their hunting camper, and a few
small ones stashed in the woods.

I think its probably a good idea. The question is - what is in the mini-bug-out-bag? The same as in the "regular one" or is it as George Carlin
said - just the stuff you "really" need?

Never without mine. I have an 11'' canvas, zipper closure tool bag from Harbor Freight that travels with me in my vehicle when I make short
trips from home. Long trips require the bigger bag. Knives, diamond hone, firemaking equipment(three types), any medications that I would be currently
taking, flashlight& spare batteries, paracord, IOW... the most important things that fit.

I used to work for NM Moiuntain Rescue... so mine is not so much as a BOB as it is grab and go rescue field kit... I did have support but JIC it did
have enough in there to aquire anything else I needed... Start with the pouch...Maxpedition Jumbo E.D.C.

One of Rickenbacker's most famous near-death experiences occurred in October 1942.[23] He was sent on a tour of the Pacific Theater of Operations
to review both living conditions and military operations, and also to deliver personally a secret message to General Douglas MacArthur from the
President. After visiting several air and sea bases in Hawaii, Rickenbacker was a passenger in the B-17D Flying Fortress numbered 40-3089, which
strayed hundreds of miles off course while on its way to a refueling stop on Canton Island in the Central Pacific Ocean. The B-17 was forced to ditch
in a remote and little-traveled part of the Central Pacific. The failure in navigation has been ascribed to an out-of-adjustment celestial navigation
instrument, a bubble octant, that gave a systematic bias to all of its readings. That octant reportedly had suffered a severe shock in a pre-takeoff
mishap. This unnecessary ditching spurred on the development of improved navigational instruments and also better survival gear for the aircrewmen.
The B-17's pilot-in-command, Captain William T. Cherry, Jr., was forced to ditch his B-17 in the Pacific Ocean, rather close to Japanese-held
islands, also. However, the Americans were never spotted by Japanese patrol planes, and they were to drift on the ocean for thousands of miles. For
24 days, Rickenbacker, the Army captain Hans C. Adamson, his friend and business partner, and the rest of the crewmen drifted in life rafts at sea.
Rickenbacker was still suffering somewhat from his earlier airplane crash, and Capt. Adamson sustained serious injuries during the ditching. The other
crewmen in the B-17 were hurt to varying degrees. The crewmen's food supply ran out after three days. Then, on the eighth day, a seagull landed on
Rickenbacker's head. He warily and cautiously captured it, and then the survivors meticulously divided it into equal parts and used part of it for
fishing bait.[24] They lived on sporadic rain water that fell and similar food "miracles". Rickenbacker assumed leadership, encouraging and
browbeating the others to keep their spirits up. One crewman, Alexander Kaczmarczyk of the USAAF, died and was buried at sea. The U.S. Army Air Forces
and the U.S. Navy's patrol planes planned to abandon the search for the lost B-17 crewmen after just over two weeks, but Rickenbacker's wife
persuaded them to extend it another week. The services agreed to do so. Once again, the newspapers and radio broadcasts reported that Rickenbacker was
dead. A U.S. Navy patrol OS2U-3 Kingfisher float-plane piloted by Lieutenant William F. Eadie, USN spotted and rescued the survivors on November 13,
off the coast of Nukufetau in Tuvalu. All were suffering from exposure, sunburn, dehydration, and near-starvation. Eadie was awarded the Navy's Air
Medal. Rickenbacker completed his assignment and delivered his message to General MacArthur, which has never been made public. Rickenbacker had
thought that he had been lost for 21 days, and wrote a book about this experience titled Seven Came Through, published by Doubleday, Doran. It was not
until later that he recalculated the number of days, and he corrected himself in his autobiography in 1967.

There are a lot of these stories out there. Just google 'Stories of Survival".

I've got a small bag stashed in my desk at work, a get home bag in my car, as well as small kit of essentials that I keep in my purse. At home we
are set up to sustain ourselves for an extended period of time. We have several bags stashed around places we go often.

I've also prepared a few
mini kits for loved ones to keep in their cars. I am never out of arms reach of my gear.

I have a few ammo boxes in various places various distances from home. Closest one about 10 miles farthest about 120 miles. All headed to my shelter
and I can get there in a little over a week of walking at night

Big up the Gorilla Tape! that stuffs amazing, Gorilla Super Glue can be extremely useful as well. You can get it in tiny tubes for BOB's as well.

Need to get myslef a Poncho.

oooooo I forgot about the Wrecking Bar, now thats one useful tool for any situation. I recommend the Gransfors Bruks range, They are the only
Guaranteed Indestructible Wrecking Bar out there that is actually Indestructible.

The Bic Lighters are amazing, I dropped one in a lake about 5 years ago whilst smoking with friends, at a usual smoking spot for us so I went there
allot, about a year and a half later we went for our usual smoke to find the lake had been drained so we went to our usual spot dangling our legs over
the edge, I dropped the 'cigarette' in the dried up lake and luckily it had completely dried up, so picked up the 'cigarette' with a massive
pheewwww when I saw a colourful piece of plastic half submerged in the mud, I yanked it out to find that it was my old bic lighter I had dropped a
year or so ago, I tried to light it but there was mud in the gas outlet so cleaned it out and tried again, the little bic sparked up first time and
carried on sparking up for the first time for 6 months thereafter and I was a massive smoker back then(not condoning it in the least, stupid thing to
do and the only thing I regret in my life). Now I know, I know, Pictures or it didnt happen so i guess it never happened

You can never have enough. I like the black color too. It's discreet on the keychain.

Keychain is a good idea. I wrap mine around an old plastic card like an expired health card after sanding my info off then a cap wrap on each end to
keep dirt and fuzz off the edges of the rolled tape.

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